Please don't threaten me
Kingshuk Rahman, On e-mail
I have every reason now to live in fear and agony in my beloved country. I have every reason to verify myself as a Muslim. I have all the reasons to feel like a dead man. So, please don't threaten me. I am not Prof Younus or Prof Humayun Azad. Neither I am any relative of those intellectuals of our country who were murdered on 14 December 1971. I am not Dr. Jafar Iqbal or Hasan Azizul Haque. Obviously my name mimics like Muslim, but nowadays I cant assure myself as a Muslim. I need to be evaluated. While reading about my religion and my prophet, I used to believe " my belief and religion is mine, yours is yours". While realising my religion and the past, I used to believe that only God can evaluate and call someone an atheist. But now I need to be evaluated by the elements of Jamaat-Shibir and other Islamic party activists. Thanks to them. Many thanks to them for their voices of hatred and violence in the name of Islam. Thanks to them for their strong determination and relentless effort to clean this country and countrymen of free thoughts. But what can I do? Though I am afraid of threat, I can't help reading the works of Hasan Azizul Haque. My little children cant refrain themselves from the books of Jafar Iqbal. My university going honest students used to cry, as they will never get the classes of Prof Younus or Humayun Azad. Please don't take my religion as your political property. I know, I can only request you all to change your thoughts. I can't threaten you in the name of my belief. I cant cut the tendon of human beings to torture him in the name of my idealism. The young activists of Jamaat Shibir, you didn't see the liberation war, you were not born at that time. But your leaders were there. You can't even understand the feelings of a freedom fighter when he went out of his home to death for this motherland. But your leaders do know about the pain and tears of these freedom fighters. Now what you are doing in the name of religion with one eye, what you are executing in the name of those traitor leaders, is neither a religious act nor a human behaviour. Please threaten me again and again up to my death, but please don't threaten my sweet country and the honest learned open-minded patriots. We lost the best sons of this soil 35 years back. We don't want it again. I think they are the windows of light. Shutting the windows you will be a ghost in a ghost country.
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